Posted on 06/19/2010 9:13:23 AM PDT by nmh
Sarah Palin says recreational pot smoking is "relatively speaking a minimal problem" in America.
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"I think we need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts," she said. "If somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems we have in society."
Allen St. Pierre, the director of NORML, which supports liberalizing drug laws, said Palin's position on pot is perfectly in line with her identity as a politician.
"If you're a populist as she appears to be, it's maybe not that surprising," he told AOL News in a phone interview today.
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Truth hurts, doesn't it?
Thank you! Now go light up that joint.
A joint? Nah, I prefer the hard stuff.
I agree with you.
Drugs, alcohol and other things like porn can all be addictive. I hope people don’t become dependent on any of them and live their lives enslaved to them.
But there are limits to what you or I can do to deal with these matters.
The people who are using the pot will have to figure out that its “good for them” or “bad for them” without the cops knocking on everybody’s door.
I can live with that but legalistic people who are hiding their own faults with moral outrage against “drugs” can’t, so we have all the laws, police etc.
As for what Sarah Palin is said to have said, I don’t know why we are reading about this other than its just more of the trash Sarah Palin propaganda eminating from the Left and RINO’s.
worth repeating. Best post on this thread.
side note: I remember seeing “Reefer Madness” in grammar school. It was the first time I ever heard of Marijuana. Thank you teachers for introducing me to pot, which I enjoyed in my youth.
Palin didn’t say it wasn’t a big deal; she said there were higher priorities to deal with before (not instead of) going into someone’s house to arrest them for smoking marijuana (unless children are in the house). I’m conservative, and I agree. It doesn’t mean I don’t want drug crimes to be ignored, but limited resources call for prioritizing. It’s not populism, it’s simply common sense.
The fact is, pot in comparison to alcohol is nearly harmless.
Marijuana being illegal, and the subsequent elimination of the hemp industry is one the stupidest policies in the US. Absolutely, flagrantly idiotic.
Wanting to put people in jail for growing and smoking a plant is NOT a conservative social policy. To whatever degree the whole idea of the “drug war” is a policy of Conservatism, I reject it totally.
5% of the world population and 25% of the world’s prisoners, most from drug laws, is NOT a conservative policy. Letting the prison industry and unions influence lawmaking is an absurdly stupid idea.
Oh Please the old gateway drug arguement. If that is your arguement then the real gteway drugs such as cigarettes adn alcohol should be first sicne they are typically what people who are addicts will reach for first.
I don’t disagree with you there.. and I am not anti-pot. Actually I’m shocked it is still illegal for anyone over 18.
They are by far an abomination that absolutely ruins lives beyond repair. (personal anecdote)
Gov. Palin has it right this time. There are pressing issues these days that need to be dealt with using limited resources. Lighting up a joint in the privacy of your own home does not even register on my scale of importance.
Yup, I’m very pleased with this position. It would be nice if she ditched the “defend Israel at all costs” position.
This is the reasoning that the disingenuous poster and others fail to acknowledge, unfortunately. They are assuming that Palin supports legalization of marijuana (she doesn't) and is condoning the activity (she's not) while ignoring her central argument.
I don't even know how to respond to such indoctrinated ignorance.
No doubt. If marijuana were legal, we wouldn’t have people running marijuana over the border.
I saw an outtake of the new Betty White show on TVLand this morning and in it they allude to her (the 90-year-old) in her apartment smoking pot; it was quite funny and probably thrown in because research is showing more and more OLD people are smoking pot these days.
Please point me to the place in her statements where she said MJ should be legal...I must have missed that.
Legalizing MJ will just make the "underground economy" (see crooks and mobs) go to a different "product"..most likely one that is more lastingly harmful to young brains and bodies than MJ.
Common sense form Sarah. There is NOTHING conservative about the War on Drugs.
All those government employees working in the courts, bailiffs, interpreters, judges, lawyers, cops, jailers, prison unions, probation, parole, all the government programs etc, etc, etc, etc...It's endless....
This thread reeks of Patchouli oil.
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